Head of Advocacy and Communications
Simprints
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇭 Ghana
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💰 £70,000 - £80,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Own Simprints’ external voice to help close the data gap in health programs so more people get the services they are entitled to.
- Lead advocacy that positions identity verification and reliable data as essential to coverage, accountability, and better decisions.
- Run a high-performing communications function that turns evidence into influence and influence into funding, partnerships, and adoption.
- Clearly define our role in the market for strengthening national digital public infrastructure.
Requirements
- Senior advocacy and communications leadership in global health or international development, with a record of strategies that shift policy or practice.
- Direct engagement with ministries of health, global health initiatives, and major donors, such as The Global Fund or Gavi the Vaccine Alliance.
- Experience managing end-to-end media initiatives, serving as a spokesperson when needed, and securing coverage that supported advocacy goals.
- Editorial authority across formats: writing and editing op-eds, briefs, speeches and web content; shaping narrative and message discipline for senior audiences.
- Evidence-led advocacy: translating program data into clear stories, setting and tracking campaign metrics and policy mentions, and iterating based on results.
- Optional plus: Familiarity with digital health systems and national digital public infrastructure, and experience turning service-delivery data into coverage and targeting insights.
Benefits
- 5 Reasons to Join Simprints
- Genuine Impact.
- An incredible, diverse team.
- Mutual Flex.
- Ultimate work-life balance.
- Professional development.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
advocacy leadershipcommunications strategymedia initiatives managementwriting and editingdata storytellingcampaign metrics trackingpolicy analysis
Soft skills
influencepartnership buildingpublic speakingnarrative shapingmessage discipline